VG Remix - Kingdom Hearts

mariomanzanares

Welcome to my VG Remix: Kingdom Hearts thread!

Final scene

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(Better view in full screen)






Textures and Geo




Concept art




3D Models



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mariomanzanares

Today was a productive day. In the morning I've been sketching some ideas and I love the chibi-lowpoly version of Kingdom Hearts. So here's my version of Sora:



I know he is a bit too polished for a lowpoly game, but I LOVE concept art and you know...
The proportions are good in my opinion, and the outfit design is the original because the KHII version is more complex and I love the color scheme of the former.

Critics, comments and even overpaintings are very appreciated!!

BTW, I want to share the process. I'm a freak of "step by step" images.



And here's a sneak peak of the next character, Donald grumpy-but-kawaii duck.

specsowl

I'm really liking this idea. Your concepts are nice I'll definitely be watching this

mariomanzanares

First version of Sora. He's 564 tris, so I think it's pretty decent. But There's a few things that I want to change, and damn it, the hair is killing me.



First sketchfab!, yay!

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Xeik

The hair looks really good! :O Accurate and still lowpoly. I also like your technique for making the hands, I'll keep that one in mind

Torch

Solid silhouette man, will be watching this!

Andy H

Definitely watching this thread.

specsowl

Wow this is cool. Sora turned out nicely.

AlanSMitchell

Love it so far honestly I'd add a shell modifier for the hands just so they have the umpth

Stoop_Kid

Andddddd, following. This is looking pretty gnarly. I like the Sora model so far, can't wait to see what you do for the texture!

R00

This could be my favourite! Good Luck!

Poribo

Great lowpoly topology on Sora!

mariomanzanares

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the support!

Now I'm working on the thumbnails, and to be honest I'm not very convinced with the two options. That said, I think I'm going to work on the second one.





And here's the blocking.



I could use some help if you have any ideas

Cheers!

specsowl

Well to be completely honest, I'm really digging the first idea. It seems cool and the vertical aspect of it just seems interesting.

CharlesL

Yeah, the first one looks really cool. I think it would look better from multiple angles than the second one.

mariomanzanares

Cool. Traverse town on top or below?

funkbro

Yeah the first idea fits the theme of the game better IMO, looks rad

MGrecke

this looks very promising! I also like the first idea the best! cant wait to see the textures!

Andy H

I like the first idea too, specifically the one with Traverse Town on the bottom.

a3sthesia

I like both ideas! I thought I liked the first one best because it's so dynamic, but the second scene feels creative, in a kind of...magic (?) kind of way. Buh you know what i mean! Either way, what you've made is looking great already! I'm not sure you need advice...

As the others mentioned, the difference with that first idea, is that it's a very vertical scene, and we don't have a lot of those in the competition as a lot of them are mostly horizontal...so....

hope that didn't make the decision harder!

mariomanzanares

specsowl, CharlesL, funkbro, Andy H and a3sthesia: Thanks for the advise guys, you are really helping me. I'm going to try the vertical just because of what a3sthesia said: There's a lot of horizontal dioramas in the contest.

Well, and before bed (it's midnight in Spain) I want to share the second member of the crew, already finished!



And the process, of course.



(I'm dying to model this one...)

mariomanzanares

Small update: The last to arrive is finally here!



And the process, as usual:




And well, I know this is a 3D contest and I feel like you are sick of my drawings, but I just love to do concept art and blablabla... I'm really enjoying this shit and here you can see the awesome KH trio!!



(I promise I'm gonna start modelling right now)

LuCh!

your first concept looks way better!
only maybe instead off a rock/mountain opposite off the town make it a big mass of heartless!

R00

I don't mean to jump on the band wagon...But Idea number 1 fo show! Traverse town will look ace with hollow bastion on the top great progress so far

specsowl

Goofy is my favorite character. Goofy looks incredibly awesome in your concept. Holy crap I love this so much. And I love Goofy. I can't wait to see this finished!

mariomanzanares

Donald model finished!



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I'm still thinking about how to make Traverse Town...

D4V1DC

These are coming along great nice use-age of your triangles.

mariomanzanares

Thanks!

Now I know what I wanna do with Traverse Town! (This is the last concept, promise!)

Alismuffin

Oh man bring on the textures!!

mariomanzanares

Your wish has been granted:

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In fact this is just a test. And you may wanna know that if you want to use any opacity, the whole object gets wacky and transparent like the normals were inverted. So keep your transparent planes in a different object with a different material ID.

And if you want to check the texture:

JurassicPerk

Lovely lantern

mariomanzanares

Goofy is finished! He's 614 tris and I'm not very good with that because I would like to stay close to the 500 tris of the contest. But I don't know how to reduce the polycount without loosing detail, and Goofy is a little bit bigger and more complex (especially in the head)

But anyway, the average polycount of the 3 characters is 550 tris, so I'm OK with that. Are you?



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AzzaMat

These models are beautiful. I can't wait to see this finished.

D4V1DC

Any area that connects to other geo you can take off triangles from, such as the foot shoe connect, arms to hands, head to neck, hat to head these things can stand to loose geo and possibly the face area, pants and shoes.

Nice work loving this.

mariomanzanares

Thanks for the comments guys. I feel like running out of steam and your comments help me a lot!

Just finished Donald Duck texture. I think it's OK, but it's hard to detail things in a 128 texture. What do you think about it?

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Here's the texture:

Fenyce

Did you use an alpha for donalds feets?
If so... I just read, that they aren't allowed for the contest (just so you know).

I really LOVE that texture. So small, jet so beautiful!

Spacey

Fenyce: They are allowed - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123726

mario: Impressive that you've managed to maintain the likeness of these iconic characters at such a low resolution. One thing is bugging me about Donald's head: you could do with spacing the eyes apart more. Looking at some reference the area between his eyes is much larger than you have it on the model.

Fenyce

Spacey wrote: »

Fenyce: They are allowed - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123726

mario: Impressive that you've managed to maintain the likeness of these iconic characters at such a low resolution. One thing is bugging me about Donald's head: you could do with spacing the eyes apart more. Looking at some reference the area between his eyes is much larger than you have it on the model.

Oh! Didn't see that update till now! I just read somewhere in the Q&A Thread that alphas weren't allowed and stopped reading after that... ha ha!
Good to know, thanks =D

Sorry!

darkmag07

I want to further encourage you to finish this, it's looking awesome!

mariomanzanares

I know you thought I was dead, but I was just doing a quick trip with some friends and here I'm again!
And Goofy is here with me to bring back from the dead this thread

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Fenyce: Thanks for the advice! But yeah, alphas are now allowed (yay!!)

Spacey: Good observation! I really appreciate it and I'm going to correct the distance of the eyes as soon as possible.

darkmag07: Thanks! It will be a shame not to finish this because I've put a lot of effort in it. By the way, your KH thread is awesome, I really want to see yours finished too!

Dan!

fantastic work so far- I really liked the first composition Idea but this second iteration is nice as well-

Daniel Duy

Really beautiful. Glad you back. This thread will be impressive

mariomanzanares

Small update:

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Fenyce

Such a pretty little heartless! I love your textures. Can't wait to see the finished piece!

Andy H

Spot on Heartless, keep going!!

mariomanzanares

I just finished texturing Sora. Now I'm crying cause I only have one day to do the whole enviroment!!

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Mimiws

man you can do it! nice textures on goofy and heartless

D4V1DC

Yea you can do It and technically you have 2 days sort of.
Dat ASS! J/k

Sora looks ace as the rest now slap them all together, can't wait for your final.

JuanG3D

Incre

mariomanzanares

I didn't sleep tonight but... it's finally finished!!

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In the end I did Traverse Town in the gummi ship view because I was running out of time. Now, the more I look the result the more I love the new idea. What do you think? This has been a lot of work and a lot of frustration sometimes, but at the same time I enjoyed a ton. Thanks Polycount and Sketchfab for this contest!

D4V1DC

Looks great you know that you have 12 hours left, either way it is better to finish early.